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Codifer

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7. After a design flaw
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:45 PM
May 23

in the DC 10 wide body caused the deaths of a couple hundred folks in a crash shortly after take off from Orly in Paris, McDonnel Douglas first thought was to blame the foreign pilots (Turks). When the truth about the cargo bay door failures was exposed, they contributed heavily to CREEP (remember that one?) they reached a gentleman's agreement to merely put a sign on the plane that advised personnel to "Make Sure Cargo Door is Closed".

McDonnel Douglas Merged with (took over) Boeing and drove it into the ground.

Then, after killing 300 or so folks in the two 737 Max crashes, they first blamed the foreign pilots. Then when the truth of their stupidity and greed and knowingly flawed modification was exposed, they buy their way out again.

And the CEO who put forward these poor decisions and caused these deaths? The government did not even so much as slap his pee pee....... and the company voted him a 40 Million Dollar going away bonus.

Just bidness.


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